If you’re looking to get away this weekend, head to Eureka Springs for the Ozark Mountain Music Festival.

The four-day festival features 11 bands and was the brainchild of Mary Howze who was inspired to start one after attending an outdoor music festival. She decided to take the idea of a multi-day festival and move it indoors in the winter when there isn’t much going on to give people something to look forward to, said spokesperson Bill Ott.

The lineup starts at 8 p.m. tonight; then picks back up at 7 p.m. Friday, but the biggest day is Saturday when there’s music from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the historic Basin Park Hotel downtown. There’s a Bloody Mary performance at noon on Sunday. Tickets range from $10 for tonight to $55 for a pass for the entire event.

Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu will perform at the four day Ozark Mountain Music Festival in Eureka Springs. The duo plays on Saturday, which is the biggest lineup for the event.(Photo: submitted)

“You can spend the night, have adult beverages, listen to different music on different floors and have it all at one location,” said Ott. “The beauty is not only do you have all the music, but you are walking distance from 21 other bars, bistros and clubs.”

It is a fusion of bluegrass, folk, and American roots music with a festival lineup that includes multiple stages with bands from Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado.

Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu of Springfield are among those set to perform.

The musical duo has never played this particular festival, but Woolf said they have a history of performing in this Arkansas city.

“We’e played the Folk Festival a few times, and two years ago we played the Barefoot Ball in the Basin Park Hotel Ballroom and that was a blast. It’s a really cool room and we look forward to playing there again,” she said.

Tickets to the Ozark Mountain Music Festival range from $10 to $55 for a four day pass.(Photo: submitted)

During the festival, there are jam sessions where the bands get together “and pick and grin. As good as the music is, those are some of everybody’s favorites,” said Ott.

It all ends Sunday with a Bloody Mary concert where all the groups get together and have one band that leads it off, and spectators sit around the drink Bloody Mary’s.

The Haunted Windchimes is the Friday night headliner; The Kansas City Bear Fighter is Saturday’s headliner.

The Basin Park Hotel is offering special weekend packages for the concert. For example, stay Friday and Saturday and receive two passes to all the shows on both of those days for $334, plus taxes and fees (a savings of $100). Call the hotel 800-643-4972.

Want to go?

The Ozark Mountain Music Festival starts at 8 p.m. today, is 7 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday; then noon on Sunday at the Basic Park Hotel in Eureka Springs. A four day pass is $55; $10 for Thursday night performances; Friday and Saturday only $40. There is a Bloody Mary concert at noon on Sunday to end the festival, and all the bands are invited to jam together. Sunday is free if you’ve attended any other concert; if this the only performance you will attend, then Sunday is $10.

Over the weekend, there are performances by The Haunted Windchimes; Friends of the Phamily; Chucky Waggs; The Whole Famn Damily; The Kansas City Bear Fighters; Grazzhopper; Opal Agagia & The Sweet Nothings; Cindy Woolf & Mark Bilyeu (a.k.a. The Creek Rocks); Arkansauce; CalamityCubes.

There are nightly performances at 8 p .m. Thursday; 7 p.m. Friday. Most of the bands will play on Saturday and the festival kicks off at 1 p.m., Saturday. For a full schedule: http://www.ozarkmountainmusicfestival.com or find it on Facebook. There are lodging packages available through the Basin Park Hotel.